El hijo del pobre

Ribbans's analysis of such devices as the ambiguous role of the narrator, the use of free indirect style and direct dialogue, and the construction of distinctive ideolects leads to the heart of his study, the development of Galdos's characters.

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

Un libro que permite distinguir el peso inequívoco del periodismo en el mundo contemporáneo, pero sobre todo deja ver que en el presente las investigaciones más relevantes en México son hechas por mujeres. "Elvira García tiene el don de la conversación... Convertido en reveladoras entrevistas, ese don le ha permitido labrar una carrera periodística singularizada por la perspicacia y la perseverancia, por el poder de penetrar en la esencia del interlocutor." Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa. Hay un hecho que se evidencia con claridad en la prensa contemporánea: las investigaciones más...

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...